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Reforming Medicare : Options, Tradeoffs, and Opportunities /

"Identifies and analyzes the three leading approaches to Medicare reform: updated social insurance, premium support, and consumer-directed Medicare, rating each on its political viability as well as ability to promote access to health care, improve quality of care, and control costs. Describes...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Aaron, Henry J.
Corporate Authors: Brookings Institution, Century Foundation
Other Authors: Healy, Patrick F. (Patrick Ferrigan), 1982-, Lambrew, Jeanne M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Medicare reform: the stakes
  • A Medicare primer
  • Goals, performance, and options for Medicare
  • Strengthening Medicare as a social insurance program
  • Premium support
  • Consumer-directed Medicare
  • Assessing Medicare reform options and prospects.